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krsdcbl | 1 year ago

Honestly with those numbers, I'm pretty surprised it's even an independent company. Wouldn't such a community of 3-4k people in a very remote location be a prime example where providing internet could just be a gov/municipal service, subsided by an extraordinary tax if needed?

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Symbiote|1 year ago

Nowadays in Britain, even if the government provides the service they would typically contract a private company to set up and operate it.

It looks like the Falkland are similar. Here's a Facebook post from the Falkland government announcing a deal with this ISP.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=50310531517584...

sitkack|1 year ago

This is what a Thatcher Conservative utopia looks like, top to bottom public private partnerships.

The whole thing is an own goal.